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Whenever I type in a search, I go to the suggestions page, but when I make the selection, Mozilla seems to direct me to another result.

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Whenever I type in a search, I go to the suggestions page, but when I make the selection, Mozilla seems to direct me to another result which contains something similiar to where I wanted to go, but not the right one... it is re-directing me. I have ran Malawarebytes, Ad-Aware, Microsoft Essentials, and even removed and re-loaded a new version of firefox. I will also get SEVERAL Mozilla Start tabs across top of page HELP!

Whenever I type in a search, I go to the suggestions page, but when I make the selection, Mozilla seems to direct me to another result which contains something similiar to where I wanted to go, but not the right one... it is re-directing me. I have ran Malawarebytes, Ad-Aware, Microsoft Essentials, and even removed and re-loaded a new version of firefox. I will also get SEVERAL Mozilla Start tabs across top of page HELP!

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Do a malware check with some malware scan programs. You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of the database before doing a scan.

See also "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked and Searches are redirected to another site